help with URL rewrite/htaccess needed

[romulus]

Hi,

I'm moving from a wordpress installation to s9y and wanted that the nice URLs you get with mod_rewrite to be the same as with my old wordpress installation, so that no one of my users must change their feed readers, bookmarks and that the google bot finds my site with the same links as ever

In Wordpress following rewrite rules are active in a .htaccess file:

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase / 
RewriteRule ^archives/category/(.*)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /wp-feed.php?category_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/category/?(.*) /index.php?category_name=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/author/(.*)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /wp-feed.php?author_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/author/?(.*) /index.php?author_name=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})?/?([0-9]{1,2})?/?([0-9]{1,2})?/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?([0-9]+)?/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4&page=$5 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([_0-9a-z-]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /wp-feed.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4&feed=$5 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([_0-9a-z-]+)/trackback/?$ /wp-trackback.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ /wp-feed.php?feed=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^comments/feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ /wp-feed.php?feed=$1&withcomments=1 [QSA] 

Basically the URLs for articles look like that: http://server/archives/year/month/day/title
for a category like that: http://server/archives/category/name

Can someone with more experience in rewrite rules translate that for me so that s9y can use them?

I would be bery thankful

[garvinhicking]

Hi romulus!

I believe that your wish cannot be so easily done. Serendipity operates with Category and Entry IDs which will be different from your old installation. So you'd need to rewrite something like:

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RewriteRule ^archives/category/CoolCat$ /archives/category/2-CoolCat [QSA]

So remapping each text-coded category to its new categoryid.

Basically most of the other rewrites could be dones easier (like the archives stuff) - but I'm somewhat out of time to look into that. Maybe some other users with wordpress-migration-experience can help out here?

Regards,
Garvin.

[romulus]

hmm cool idea. Its a little bit of work but I have only six categories so its not too much.

I understand that its a little bit of a problem to rewrite articles because in the old links the id is missing, but I already have thought about some php script wich does some translating with a little help from an extended database.

If someone has a cool and clean idea to rewrite links (other than a php script) I would be appreciated though